“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” Albert Camus

Sunday, 17 May 2015

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being

I have postponed reading
this book for way too long. Mainly because I didn’t want to read some
ridiculous and offensive stuff about my country and my people from the point of
view of a foreigner. But I did read it and that was a good decision.

Firstly, this book may seem
strange. That’s because it has several plotlines. As far as I noticed, that is
Foer’s thing and you should use to it.

Second thing I want to point
is that the writing is astonishing. Yet another Foer’s thing and it’s the best.
You can never mistake his style of writing with someone else’s. His words and
sentences are practically bleeding. They aren’t words, they are emotions
composed with letters and sounds. His writing made me fell in love with him.

As to the depictions of
people and country, I wasn’t upset at all. Everything is quite on point and I’m
glad about it. Some things people would never guess unless they visited Ukraine
themselves therefore I thing Foer had.

I don’t want to mention plot or characters; I actually don’t like spoiling it. I truly recommend the book and the film to anyone, it’s a classic dramedy – you cry a lot and laugh a lot. Well done, Mr. Foer!